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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Persistent Systems to Team on New Industrywide Digital Platform for Clinical Care

Persistent
SystemsandPartners HealthCare, founded by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts
General Hospital, announced today a strategic collaboration to develop a new
industry-wide open-source platform with the goal of bringing digital
transformation to clinical care. Persistent will help thedigital transformationof clinical care at Partners and, together with Partners, develop
an open-source platform to lower the barriers for knowledge exchange across
health care providers and enable a new generation of decision support apps in
the clinical environment.

This four-year collaboration will
bring together the world class clinicians and researchers at Partners
HealthCare withPersistent’s innovative healthcaretechnology and product engineering expertise.

The co-developed digital platform
will be based onSubstitutable Medical Applications & Reusable
Technologies (SMART), an
open, standards-based technology platform along with Fast Healthcare
Interoperability Resources (FHIR). The platform will enable provider systems
across the country to rapidly and cost effectively deploy industry-leading best
practices in clinical care across their ecosystems.

“The collaboration serves as a
powerful example of how healthcare visionaries and leaders in technology can
create positive disruption. By combining forces with Partners HealthCare to
design this platform, we’re striving
to bring continuous transformation of the healthcare experience. We’re confident this is just the start” said Sudhir Kulkarni,
President of Digital at Persistent Systems.

“Making innovative clinical tools
available to our physicians at Partners and across the country relies on strong
collaborations between academia and industry,” said Dr. Anne Klibanski, Chief
Academic Officer at Partners HealthCare. “The co-development of this platform
should yield a new tool that integrates applications directly into the clinical
workflow -- ultimately improving patient care.”

Sandy Aronson, Executive Director
of IT for Partners Personalized Medicine recognizes that “advances in clinical
analytics and machine learning have the potential to drive medical discovery at
a pace never seen before but we currently lack the ability to efficiently place
resulting breakthroughs in the hands of clinicians. Through this collaboration
we will band together with other institutions to extend electronic health
record (EHR) ecosystems so that the benefits of this work are quickly and
broadly delivered to patients”.